I didn’t do a great job of reviewing every book I read this year, but still read a good number of books this year. My Goodreads goal was 24 books and I hit 30.
This is down from 40 in 2022, 56 in 2021, and 60(!) in 2020. Kind of an interesting correlation between the pandemic years and what has happened as we’ve come out of various lockdowns (e.g., more activity outside is less time reading inside).
Anyway, this year’s list of books is below. My favorites were The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Tracers in the Dark. My least favorite was easily Blindsight.
- Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
- Prequel by Rachel Maddow
- Imperial Deserter by Andrew Moriarty
- The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition] by Ross W.Greene
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Last Island by Adam Goodheart
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
- Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Spy by David Wise
- Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul
- All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Heroes by Stephen Fry
- Trinity by Conn Iggulden
- The Monster’s Bones by David K. Randall
- Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman